gorged

[gawrjd]

adjective

Heraldry.

1. (of a beast) represented wearing something about the neck in the manner of a collar.

   a lion gules gorged with a collar or.

Other Word Forms

• ungorged adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of gorged¹

First recorded in 1600–10; gorge ¹ + -ed ³

Example Sentences

Even now, as Master Gogolev gorged himself on food and self-pity, son and father sat in Lord Fredrick’s taxidermy-filled study only one floor below, speaking of Switzerland, wallpaper, and baby names.

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By then the media and public already digested the bizarre horror of John Wayne Gacy and gorged themselves on Ted Bundy’s gruesome story from every angle, primarily the ones that made cameras love his face.

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But it’s not like I opened the box and gorged myself on the pictures.

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Instead, the American and British public gorged on the sensationalism because that was the supposedly “official” record.

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“The bed bugs latched onto the Plaintiffs while they slept, sucked their blood until they were gorged, and resisted eradication,” according to the complaint.

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